At Electric Literature, artists animate short stories with multimedia displays. Above, Alice Cohen remixes “Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child” by Joy Williams:

 But instead of a broom, she carried the lamp that illuminated the things people did not know or were reluctant or refused to understand. And she would lower the lamp over a person and they would see how extraordinary were the birds and beasts of the world, and that they should be valued for their bright and beautiful and mysterious selves and not willfully harmed, for they were more precious than castles or the golden rocks dug out from the earth.

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